Nice Girl

Charlie was cleaning some things out of his parents' basement when he found an old Tales from the Front column dated June 17, 1988. The headline read: "This nice guy always finishes last." The first sentence ran: "Is it still true that The Nice Guy finishes last?" Well, 10 years later, Charlie has decided to answer the question. "Based on most of my life's experience up until several years ago, it was an unequivocal YES. I have been the stereotypical nice guy from birth (excepting...

MOUNT CARMEL, Ill. - A girl, no more than 6 or 7, nervously squeezed her mother's hand. The two approached Tyra Buss, whose mother, Kelly, stood next to her in the lobby at downstate Mount Carmel High School. "Go ahead," the girl's mother said. Pause gave way to the girl's voice. She inched closer. "Tyra, I've been playing a lot better my last two games since I saw you play," she said, shyly. Tyra Buss smiled. Her mother too. "But I still can't shoot from the white line.

MOUNT CARMEL, Ill. - A girl, no more than 6 or 7, nervously squeezed her mother's hand. The two approached Tyra Buss, whose mother, Kelly, stood next to her in the lobby at downstate Mount Carmel High School. "Go ahead," the girl's mother said. Pause gave way to the girl's voice. She inched closer. "Tyra, I've been playing a lot better my last two games since I saw you play," she said, shyly. Tyra Buss smiled. Her mother too. "But I still can't shoot from the white line.

Cyndee Schaffer had little idea growing up that her mother was a bit of a daredevil in her day. She knew her mother, Mollie Weinstein Schaffer, worked as a medical records secretary in Detroit but thought of her as quiet and meek. She knew, too, that her mother had served during World War II — not because her mother talked about it, but because she used her military uniform as a Halloween costume. Cyndee Schaffer, of Northbrook, learned of...

Romance continues to bloom between Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson--if Wilson's brother Luke is to be believed. Luke Wilson offered a juicy tidbit about his brother and Hudson, who've kept their rumored relationship under tight wraps while Hudson filmed the upcoming comedy "Fool's Gold" in Australia. "He seems very happy," Luke said of Owen, according to people.com. "[Kate] is a very nice girl."

Be a nice girl. Mind your manners. Don't make a scene. If you don't like liver and someone serves it to you, eat it anyway. If someone gives you a scoop of your favorite ice cream, don't ask for seconds. If you are asked to do something you'd rather not do, do it anyway. If someone treats you badly, just be nice. From the time they were young, most women were told to be nice girls, not to make waves or draw attention and never say "no. " So, we become grown women — wives, mothers, adult...

What would a nice girl like Jennifer Aniston want with a ferocious bully or, for that matter, a bungling underachiever? A trailer for Aniston's new movie, "Management" (opening May 15) explores that mystery. Aniston plays an art dealer who is torn between Woody Harrelson, rendered surprisingly unattractive by a shaved head, and Steve Zahn, rendered predictably unattractive by arrested development. At least there's no sign of Aniston's real-life ex, John Mayer.

It's likely you've never seen a Hasidic striptease. Frankly, who has? That's just one gag featured in the variety show "Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad," in town this weekend at the Lakeshore Theater, wherein gals dressed as Hasidim peel down to Star of David pasties and tighty-whities. Emcee Susannah Perlman describes the show as a cross between the Borscht Belt and Russ Meyer's go-go girl camp classic, "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" ...

By Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 2000 Karola Inc., All Rights Reserved. Distributed by King Features Syndicate | July 18, 2000

Q: I recently lost my virginity at the age of 26. It was very special for me. I met a very nice girl. We connected immediately, and it just happened. She lives in another state, so we're not going out regularly. It has now been more than three weeks since that memorable night, and I have not had the urge to masturbate once. I know it is normal to masturbate, and previously I would usually do it about three times a week. What happened? A: What's happened is that you...

What would a nice girl like Jennifer Aniston want with a ferocious bully or, for that matter, a bungling underachiever? A trailer for Aniston's new movie, "Management" (opening May 15) explores that mystery. Aniston plays an art dealer who is torn between Woody Harrelson, rendered surprisingly unattractive by a shaved head, and Steve Zahn, rendered predictably unattractive by arrested development. At least there's no sign of Aniston's real-life ex, John Mayer.

Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson, co-stars in the 2006 comedy "You, Me and Dupree," have ended their romance on amicable terms, people.com reports, though neither of the stars' reps would comment. The rumor mill had the blond pair dating since last fall. Photos showed them together around the globe -- walking the beaches in Australia (where Hudson filmed "Fool's Gold"), kissing at Hudson's New York birthday party, vacationing in Hawaii and dining in Santa Monica, said People. Hudson seemed to have won...

BY GINA B. and Sex Columnist Gina B. is a RedEye special contributor | September 14, 2007

During a recent bar conversation, a stranger told me a familiar tale: "Women say they want to date nice guys, but they really don't. I'm a nice guy, and it's hard to find dates. Women would rather date the men who screw them over." The man is a card-carrying nice guy. He's attentive and employed. He seemed to have good listening skills and was eager to give up his seat for a woman. He asked great questions and was seemingly very considerate. So what's his problem? He doesn't...

The NFL players section of this week's Sports Illustrated focuses on Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher. Among the topics he addressed were his family life and brief relationship with Paris Hilton last fall. On his family life, he said, "my wife and I are divorced now. We get along great, but she moved to Phoenix with my daughter [Pamela, who turns four in December]." About his fling with Hilton, he said, "we met, had a good time in Vegas, and she came to a game. That was about it. She's a nice girl--and a...

Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson, co-stars in the 2006 comedy "You, Me and Dupree," have ended their romance on amicable terms, people.com reports, though neither of the stars' reps would comment. The rumor mill had the blond pair dating since last fall. Photos showed them together around the globe -- walking the beaches in Australia (where Hudson filmed "Fool's Gold"), kissing at Hudson's New York birthday party, vacationing in Hawaii and dining in Santa Monica, said People. Hudson seemed to have won...

Dear Abby: My 33-year-old grandson (I`ll call him "John") was divorced two years ago, so he came to live with me for free. I am a widow, living on a small pension and my Social Security. John is a sweet and lovable lad, but he is a little on the lazy side. He refuses to carry out the trash, clear the table after his meals or make his own bed. He is immaculate about himself, taking two or three showers a day. I do all his laundry and even shine his shoes, and I must say he is a fine looking...

Romance continues to bloom between Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson--if Wilson's brother Luke is to be believed. Luke Wilson offered a juicy tidbit about his brother and Hudson, who've kept their rumored relationship under tight wraps while Hudson filmed the upcoming comedy "Fool's Gold" in Australia. "He seems very happy," Luke said of Owen, according to people.com. "[Kate] is a very nice girl."

When he went home last year he realized for the first time that he would be buried there, in the small, gritty industrial town he had loathed for as long as he could remember. He looked out the window of his bedroom and saw the siding on the house next door and knew that he was trapped, as surely as if he had never left for the city. Late one night, before he was to go back to his own apartment, his father tried to have a conversation with him, halting and slow, about drug use and the...

Former Destiny's Child singer and gospel artist Michelle Williams knows some fans will always see her as "the church girl." But she wants them to know that she has another side--a seedier side that she plans to express in her first solo R&B album this spring. "I've been dogged, I've been dumped, I've done the dumping, I've done the cheating," Williams told RedEye. The album doesn't have a title or a first single yet, but in addition to showing off her inner bad girl, the Rockford native wants to...

The weekend strangulation of 18-year-old Carmen Charneco left stunned relatives and friends Monday asking one simple question: "Why?" After all, friends said, Charneco was everything her family, or most families, would want in a daughter. Those who knew her said Charneco was a hard-working recent graduate of Dundee Crown High School who held a job at a home improvement store in Elgin. And they said the Carpentersville woman was caring, often baby-sitting neighborhood kids...

In your article "What a Girl Wants for Prom" [April 9, by Chris McNamara], I take issue with the [quote] "They don't care about the guys." During my senior year in high school, I had a prom date who was similarly concerned about her dress, shoes, hairstyle and accessories. But during the weeks leading up to prom, she was totally discourteous in her attitude toward her prom date (me). While my friends were spending time with their prom dates every Saturday night in the weeks leading up to prom, my date...